| 词条 | The Moviegoer |
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| name = The Moviegoer | image = File:Moviegoer.JPG | caption = First edition | author = Walker Percy | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Philosophical fiction | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf | pub_date = May 15, 1961[1] | media_type = Print (hardcover, paperback) | pages = 242 | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Vintage in 1961. It won the U.S. National Book Award.[2] Time magazine included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".[3] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Moviegoer sixtieth on its list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century. It is published in the UK by Methuen.[4] The novel is heavily influenced by the existentialist themes of authors like Søren Kierkegaard, whom Percy read extensively. Unlike many dark didactic existentialist novels (including Percy's later work), The Moviegoer has a light poetic tone. It was Percy's first, most famous, and most widely praised novel, and established him as one of the major voices in Southern literature. The novel also draws on elements of Dante by paralleling the themes of Binx Bolling's life to that of the narrator of the Divine Comedy. Plot summaryThe Moviegoer tells the story of Binx Bolling, a young stock-broker in postwar New Orleans. The decline of tradition in the Southern United States, the problems of his family and his traumatic experiences in the Korean War have left him alienated from his own life. He day-dreams constantly, has trouble engaging in lasting relationships and finds more meaning and immediacy in movies and books than in his own routine life. The loose plot of the novel follows the Moviegoer himself, Binx Bolling, in desperate need of spiritual redemption. At Mardi Gras, he breaks out of his caged everyday life and launches himself on a journey, a quest, in a "search" for God. Without any mental compass or sense of direction he wanders the streets of New Orleans' French Quarter, and Chicago, and then travels the Gulf Coast, interacting with his surroundings as he goes. He has philosophical moments, reflecting on the people and things he encounters on the road.[5] He is constantly challenged to define himself in relation to friends, family, sweet-hearts and career despite his urge to remain vague and open to possibility. "What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life." Film versionDuring the 1980s Terrence Malick worked on a screen adaptation but eventually dropped it.[6] References1. ^{{cite journal |date=May 15, 1961 |title=Books Today |journal=The New York Times |page=29 }} 2. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1962 "National Book Awards – 1962"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30. (With essays by Sara Zarr and Tom Roberge from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) 3. ^The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.methuen.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?value=183|title=Methuen Books|website=www.methuen.co.uk|access-date=2018-08-07}} 5. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Moviegoer-Walker-Percy/dp/0375701966 The Moviegoer: Walker Percy: 9780375701962: Amazon.com: Books] 6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140323-the-10-greatest-movies-never-made | title=Beyond Jodorowsky’s Dune: 10 greatest movies never made | publisher=BBC | accessdate=23 March 2014}} External links{{wikiquote}}
| before = The Waters of Kronos Conrad Richter | title = National Book Award for Fiction | years = 1962 | after = Morte d'Urban J. F. Powers }}{{s-end}}{{Walker Percy}}{{NBA for Fiction 1950–1974}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Moviegoer, The}} 8 : 1961 American novels|National Book Award for Fiction winning works|American philosophical novels|Novels by Walker Percy|Books about film|Debut novels|Alfred A. Knopf books|Novels set in New Orleans |
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